An introduction to VMware AppHA

This post is part of a series of blogpostings on VMworld 2013 announcements. See here for a complete overview of all announcements.

In VMware vSphere 5,5 VMware introduced a new feature called AppHA. AppHA is part of VMware HA and monitors the status of services running in the guest. This is done using vFabric Hyperic agents which needs to be installed in each guest. Also you need a AppHA virtual applance and a Hyperic server